Sentence examples for as an evolutionary unit from inspiring English sources
The species as an evolutionary unit is at the centre of the modern Neo-Darwinian synthesis.
As we know, a protein domain is considered as an evolutionary unit of protein function and the domain coding sequence can be duplicated and/or recombined.
Thus, it can be assumed that the characteristics of the distribution of functional sites on the exon structure may be one of the factors for evolutionary selection, and functional sites can be seen as an evolutionary unit also.
When individuals engage in mutual policing at some cost to themselves, the group as a whole functions as an evolutionary unit, as in the social insects, where "Worker policing... may be selected due to the colony-level benefit of conflict suppression" ([ 21] p. 169).
Examining patterns across biomes leads to a better understanding of patterns of diversifications, as each biome could be considered an evolutionary unit.
A protein domain maybe defined as an independent evolutionary unit that may either occur on its own in a single domain protein or alongside other similar units in a multi-domain protein.
In this sense, each satellite DNA can be regarded as an independent evolutionary unit (Ugarkovic and Plohl 2002).
According to the multispecies coalescent model, the diversification of Soldanella in southern Italy began with the differentiation of the metapopulation of the Gelbison massif as an independent evolutionary unit.
In particular, the pSymB chromid behaves as an independent evolutionary unit, and our data suggest that the biological and evolutionary meaning of chromids is larger than previously hypothesized, playing a considerable role at the intraspecific level (at least in this taxon), in addition to genera differentiation (Harrison et al. 2010).
The stability of these intragenomic ITS2 copy variants within individuals and interbreeding populations suggests that rDNA is moving as a single evolutionary unit through natural populations to fixation and has provided a complementary diagnostic tool to the restriction digest for studying genetic discontinuities and species boundaries.
